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Re:More than one million people will work from coworking spa... by dheera on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:29AM (#13519266)
The internet still sucks in 2017. I still can't make a 3-way video call between people in 3 countries without having to say "Can you hear me" every 5 minutes and then having to repeat stuff all the time.

Doubly forget having a productive meeting if one of those people is on Comcast, has a crappy Wi-Fi router, is in China, can't figure out how to get their microphone to work, or has babies yelling in the background.

I'm all for telecommuting as a concept but we aren't there yet.

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Re:More than one million people will work from coworking spa... by toomuchtodo on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:12AM (#13519409)
Check out Zoom. We have 50+ participants on video conf calls weekly without any issues; participants are global.
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Re:More than one million people will work from coworking spa... by riffraff on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:00AM (#13519554)
I can vouch for Zoom, I use it daily in chats with 5-10 people in 5+ countries and frequently with more, it works flawlessly given a decent connection (basic DSL).

I wish the UI was a bit better though (e.g. consistently working way to see who is talking is a feature that is not there or, it seems, sometimes it is and then disappear).

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Re:More than one million people will work from coworking spa... by psybin on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:21AM (#13519633)
Zoom is pretty awful, we have constant issues with audio quality.
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Re:More than one million people will work from coworking spa... by digler999 on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:39PM (#13526101)
> I still can't make a 3-way video call between people in 3 countries

my team can't even have one call-in member (a few states away) join a teleconference without it sounding like she's underwater.

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Re:More than one million people will work from coworking spa... by bdcravens on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:47PM (#13525826)
I've done multiple international mentoring sessions via Zoom and it hasn't been an issue. (and my home service is Comcast)
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